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Jonathan Atkinson

@lowwintersun.bsky.social
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Live near Manchester (UK), work on citizen-led/co-op approaches to the energy transition as a way to tackle climate change. Interested in politics, urban design, anarchism, co-ops and football (not necessarily in that order).

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4h
municipal and cooperative energy utilities have also been at the forefront of deploying community-owned gigabit fiber networks at prices much better than the local telecom monopoly
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Interview with @amywestervelt.bsky.social of Drilled abt her new book– “these strategies were really concocted to help all industries and companies avoid regulation and get around democracy in a variety of ways.” Pls read, comment, share in your networks! allouryesterdays.info/2026/10/14/i...
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Interview with Amy Westervelt - "these strategies were really concocted to help all industries and companies avoid regulation and get around democracy in a variety of ways." - All Our Yesterdays
Amy Westervelt, of Drilled (etc!) kindly agreed to an interview about her new book, Brought to You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy, 1. Who are you? Where ...
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 11h
#WITAOD truther!
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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The government is going to investigate the financial governance of Tees Valley Combined Authority. It comes three years after the Conservatives launched a review after allegations of corruption at the Teesworks regeneration scheme.
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Government to launch statutory investigation into Tees Valley Combined Authority
Statutory probe into financial governance at Ben Houchen-led authority to be launched this week
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Lovely photo!
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Lightbulb moment
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When will they achieve consciousness and realise that no, I don't want to watch Entourage!
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If AI is the new god how come the Netflix algorithm can't recommend a half decent programme to watch? 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 07/10/2026
Co-operative ideas ran through Labour Conference. From businesses owned by workers and communities to community-owned energy and new models for public services, Labour made the case for sharing power and ownership.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 07/10/2026
walks around with a big coat and no underwear
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Grim day, Ashburys
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
To me, it shows how misguided it is to try and formulate a simplistic, catch all position on zionism. Personally, I feel the strategic imperative is to attack the right wing, militaristic and colonialist elements driving the war on Palestine, not target an ill-defined ideology.
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One of the best books I've read on the left wing Jewish experience of zionism. Very much a personal story, but explains with simplicity how and why two, politically aligned members of the same NY, left wing family might have diametrically opposed views on zionism. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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If I Am Not for Myself
If I Am Not For Myself is a passionate, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century. It traces the author’s upbringing in 1960s Jewish-American suburbia, hi...
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Burnt Hill, Peak District
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A book to run Vogon poetry close, TBH I can't believe this is a thing that got made 😱
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Really painful read from @sportingintel.bsky.social on the darkest aspect of sportswashing: how some Man City fans turned to horrible abuse and threats because he dared to report on their club's finances. www.dailymail.com/sport/footba...
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NICK HARRIS: The truth about all the ugly tactics Man City used on me
It's 2020 and I'm sat at a hospice window. Behind it, paralysed due to terminal brain cancer is my wife Helen. My phone rings: 'Your address has just been posted on Twitter by a City fan, making threa...
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Shame Boro's 8 - 1 hammering of City was just outside of the sham era (who knows, maybe the humiliation triggered it???). Great memories although all sadly false and now to be erased from my brain as sham. 😵‍💫
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
1. Man City 5 - 3 Monaco; what a mental game, stand out was Falcao putting Stones on the floor and then chipping Caballero and the unknown Mbappé hammer one in at the near post. What an amazing Monaco team! City went out in the away leg which was pretty funny! youtube.com/shorts/GR4SX...
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Manchester City vs Monaco UCL 16/17
YouTube video by TikiTakaX
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
2. Maren De Roon rescues a point for Boro against Pep's City in his first season there with a towering header. Traoré was amazing that day! www.facebook.com/watch/?v=228...
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39K views · 756 reactions | #OnThisDay in 2016, Marten de Roon popped up with a late equaliser for #Boro away to Manchester City ⚽️ Extended highlights 📹➡️ http://bit.ly/2OryJDJ #UTB | Middlesbrough FC
#OnThisDay in 2016, Marten de Roon popped up with a late equaliser for #Boro away to Manchester City ⚽️ Extended highlights 📹➡️ http://bit.ly/2OryJDJ #UTB
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Here are my top three personal (mostly Boro) moments of the Man City sham era (2029-2018). 3. Lardy-boy Lee Tomlin's Bergkamp turn in our 2 - 0 win against City in the FA Cup, 2015 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm0j...
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Lee Tomlin Turn Turn Turn - Middlesbrough v Manchester City
YouTube video by Paul Williams
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In an act of gross unfairness I was put in the 'Blues' team in this week's 7-a-side, when it was felt necessary to create a Reds (Utd) v Blues (City) game. This despite the fact I AM A MIDDLESBROUGH FAN. So much for the 'red mafia'! 🙄
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BBC announce the formal opening of the diesel panic buying season! Good luck out there guys! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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US pressures Europe to release diesel reserves as Trump threatens export ban
President Donald Trump has threatened to ban diesel exports in a bid to ease prices in the US ahead of the November elections.
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How long have they been at it and how much longer do you think it will take?
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
and one is longer than the other
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And the stilts are dangerously high
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nvidia committed to spreading systemic risk throughout the entire financial system! 🚀
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'Inappropriate use of artificial intelligence (AI) in structural design' ....clues about the conclusions are in the title! www.cross-safety.org/uk/safety-in...
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Inappropriate use of artificial intelligence (AI) in structural design
Concerns are raised about the unverified use of AI-generated structural design outputs to justify the installation of heavy plant on an existing building roof.
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Indeed, or whether they even see a role full stop! As someone involved at the delivery end as policies are implemented, it's endlessly frustrating to see issues social science would have identified repeatedly overlooked!
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fascinating and wide ranging reflections in the responses to this provocation from Will...
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think changes to UKRI priorities/uni funding crises, haven't helped on this and many qual researchers are losing out to AI-driven research approaches (which is somehow meant to contribute to UK growth!). Without good qual research policy makers lack the tools to make good policy.
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
....anyone can have a penthouse in the K-hole! 🙄
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
....no it's much worse! 😱
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So sad that he had to "flee" Britain (in fear of his life perhaps?) and this from a philanthropist do-gooder, wealth-creater. What have we become?? 😭
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Kuenssberg demanding Burnham commit to austerity on BBC and getting angry when he won't. 🙄
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Birds
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
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The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yeah, I spent years putting it in inverted commas - it becomes harder when the department you work with gets renamed with it in the title though!
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
...part of the challenge is understanding and defining what 'Net Zero' constitutes, especially as many of us have been sceptical about the scientific underpinning of the idea in the first place ie the NET ZERO aspect of the concept!
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is bad and a challenge for policy makers, campaigners and practitioners,but the intriguing aspect is that it's not 'belief' in climate change that is falling, but belief in 'Net Zero's...
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Piracy yes, but with 'legitimate concerns'...
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026
Happy mushroom season!
A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
...and this is the kind of crap likely to get worse.
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When people talk about the 'dangers of AI' this is what they should be referring to... arstechnica.com/health/2023/...
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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Week 2: the King engages in debates with a chatbot and we read a blog written by a bullshit generator machine 👏🏻
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BBC News continues it's extended panic attack about chatbots
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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I turned off Radio 4 World at One today when they read out a blog from a chatbot - assumedly so that it might offer insight into it's 'consciousness' 🙄
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